7950 GX2

Dangerman3 · 26 Mar 2007 at 23:11

any body know why overclockers and other companies arent seeling 7950 gx2's any more ive looked everywhere. please any help would be so greatful this is one card i really want

Slinky1989 · 26 Mar 2007 at 23:15

Because there is another one that's about ten times better for about the same original price?

easyrider · 26 Mar 2007 at 23:16

They have been discontinued by NV.

Why is it the card you want?

The 8800 series will get you faster speeds and DX 10 for less money.

Leave the GX2 alone It needs SLI profiles to work and although was good at the time a 8800 GTS 320 MB for example wil destroy it for much less money.

elite · 26 Mar 2007 at 23:16

I think they have stopped making them! same with the x1800s 7800s and 7900s...I "think"

Darkwave · 26 Mar 2007 at 23:16

You just missed the 7950GX2 going for £117 on clearance.

It's a crap botch-job of two cards though, you're not missing anything.

Get a G80-based card instead.

LoadsaMoney · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:21

As above the GX2's were stopped when the new G80's came out last year, its how its always happened, when the manufacturers release their new card they stop production of the card before.

[HoL]Cobra · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:25

Ulfhedjinn said:
You just missed the 7950GX2 going for £117 on clearance.

It's a crap botch-job of two cards though, you're not missing anything.

Get a G80-based card instead.

Would hardly call it a crap botched up card.
Card works flawlessly in my comp, does'nt need profiles in XP (VU is another matter entirely, but thats down to it's driver support at the moment)
Granted, its DX9 only, but thats not a big deal just yet

But yes, if I was buying new, an 8800 would be top of my list, but i'm personally waiting for the 8950GX2 for my next upgrade into the lovely world of DX10 loveliness.

LoadsaMoney · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:30

You need a compatible mobo, and in loads of games it will only run as 1x 7900 GT, as thats all it is, 2x 7900 GT's slapped together.

Darkwave · 27 Mar 2007 at 15:46

LoadsaMoney said:
You need a compatible mobo, and in loads of games it will only run as 1x 7900 GT, as thats all it is, 2x 7900 GT's slapped together.

Exactly. Even easyrider doesn't have much good to say about them these days and he owned one.

gt_junkie · 27 Mar 2007 at 15:56

Yeah - go 8800 or wait to see what R600 does if it manages to make it to release in a month!

GX2 was good but as others have said requires SLi profiles to work at its best. Mine does what i need it to do and i'm perfectly happy with it but if i were in the market now i'd be getting one of the new batch of cards!

gt

Darkwave · 27 Mar 2007 at 16:04

gt_junkie said:
Yeah - go 8800 or wait to see what R600 does if it manages to make it to release in a month!

Key word being "if" at this point. :eek:

Rroff · 27 Mar 2007 at 17:09

The reason why no one sells them any more is that you can pickup a 8800GTS or GTX for similiar price to what the GX2 used to sell at, and not many people are gonna buy a GX2 when they can get an 8800 class GPU with the same money... and when DX10 games do come out, or DX9 games that make use of the 8800 series better shader capabilities they will outperform a GX2 by a moderate amount, in all current games there is little difference.

Love the ignorant GX2 bashing by people who have either never owned one, or tried them when they first came out before the bugs were ironed out (of which there were substantially less than the 8800 has) and never gave them a 2nd chance...

The GX2 is a fantastic card for DX9 games, easily as good and in some cases better (when overclocked) than the 8800GTS 640Mb performance wise, tho it doesn't have as good filtering quality...

Theoretically being 2 cores working in SLI it does have a drawback over a single core card offering similiar performance, in practise there are very few games that don't work properly in SLI mode and the number is decreasing almost every day - infact I'm yet to find a game I can't get to work in SLI mode even if I do (very rarely) have to manually create a profile for it.

Also the GX2 is not 2x 7900GTs slapped together, its 2x G71M (GeForce GO 7900GTX) mobile cores clocked at 500Mhz (50Mhz more than most GTs) and most of them will overclock to 600Mhz easily for a nice performance boost, for the more adventurous a small volt-mod will coupled with the space kit and some extra cooling let you take the GX2 to 7900GTX SLI performance.

easyrider was an early adopter and got stung, hence his rather low regard for these cards, but while understandable its not a fair or balanced view point.

( http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17589450 )

oh and put the 320Mb 8800 up against the GX2 with a modern game in ultra quality and the 8800 320Mb will weep from its lack of video memory while the GX2 is happily running smoothly.

[HoL]Cobra · 27 Mar 2007 at 18:24

Same here.
Not yet had a game that does not run in SLI.

So to the OP
Great card, but would get an 8 series instead, due to DX10 and better IQ, unless you can pick 1 up cheap, then you'll have a bargain, as it easily copes with most games at 1680*1050 (the res I play games at) with everything maxed out.
So you can ignore the comments from some saying it's a botched up job, it's not, plain and simple

Darkwave · 27 Mar 2007 at 18:50

Rroff said:
Love the ignorant GX2 bashing by people who have either never owned one, or tried them when they first came out before the bugs were ironed out (of which there were substantially less than the 8800 has) and never gave them a 2nd chance...

*Looks at Rroff's signature.*

Wouldn't surprise me if most people here with one of them in their signature would say that, and it wouldn't surprise me if most people here without one in their signature would say otherwise.

Rroff said:
easyrider was an early adopter and got stung, hence his rather low regard for these cards, but while understandable its not a fair or balanced view point.

People who have owned 7950GX2s and sold them on rarely have anything good to say, including easyrider. He was an early adopter, as you said, but he had it for quite a while. Right up until G80 came out, in fact.

He's more than capable of backing up his opinion though, which I'm sure he will at your expense.

[HoL]Cobra · 27 Mar 2007 at 19:01

Whats with the arguing guys??

I've had this card since my last major upgrade from a P4 2.8 Northy with a 6800 Ultra, to the 1 I have now, and that was last July/August time.

Not had a single problem with this card, and doubt he has either, hence why the posts saying they are ok.
Thats 1 reason why I have not jumped out and ordered the 8800 card, because I simply do not need to at this time, and I play a lot of modern games like BF2/2142, Supreme Commander etc, heck, it even played Oblivion no problems with everything maxed.
When games that do use DX10 (and trust me, my mouth is watering waiting for these, a bit like Homer thinking of food) I will be getting one.

If others have had problems, it was probably due to drivers / mobo problems on their own particular system, or not set up right.

If the OP can get 1 at a good price I would certainly recommend it, else if not and it's same price or similiar to an 8800, he should get that instead, but why scare the guy off, with what is a decent card that runs everything that you can throw at it today?

And I would certainly not swap this card for an 8800 320 meg jobby, its like a step backwards to me, would have to be the GTX 768 for me, an that still costs an arm and a leg, though the 640 still looks tempting

LoadsaMoney · 27 Mar 2007 at 19:07

Yeah it depends how much he can find one for, if its a good price then go for it.

[HoL]Cobra · 27 Mar 2007 at 19:08

Amen

Darkwave · 27 Mar 2007 at 19:08

[HoL]Cobra said:
If the OP can get 1 at a good price I would certainly recommend it, else if not and it's same price or similiar to an 8800, he should get that instead, but why scare the guy off, with what is a decent card that runs everything that you can throw at it today?

You answered your own question, he most likely won't get one at a good price.

They were going for £117 on OcUK clearance last week but they went like hot cakes, now he might as well just go G80 as it'll cost him the same amount to get a 7950GX2 which would be completely and utterly pointless.

LoadsaMoney said:
Yeah it depends how much he can find one for, if its a good price then go for it.

A good price in this case being what, £150? Doubtful.

That has been and gone when they were on clearance for £117. Won't happen again any time soon.

[HoL]Cobra · 27 Mar 2007 at 19:13

Theres other places besides here he could search for, but your probably right on price, but I did say IF (IF being the buzz word

)

Plus if they went like hotcakes, shows what a good card it is, if they are pants, no one would buy them

easyrider · 27 Mar 2007 at 19:59

Rroff said:
The reason why no one sells them any more is that you can pickup a 8800GTS or GTX for similiar price to what the GX2 used to sell at, and not many people are gonna buy a GX2 when they can get an 8800 class GPU with the same money... and when DX10 games do come out, or DX9 games that make use of the 8800 series better shader capabilities they will outperform a GX2 by a moderate amount, in all current games there is little difference.

Love the ignorant GX2 bashing by people who have either never owned one, or tried them when they first came out before the bugs were ironed out (of which there were substantially less than the 8800 has) and never gave them a 2nd chance...

The GX2 is a fantastic card for DX9 games, easily as good and in some cases better (when overclocked) than the 8800GTS 640Mb performance wise, tho it doesn't have as good filtering quality...

Theoretically being 2 cores working in SLI it does have a drawback over a single core card offering similiar performance, in practise there are very few games that don't work properly in SLI mode and the number is decreasing almost every day - infact I'm yet to find a game I can't get to work in SLI mode even if I do (very rarely) have to manually create a profile for it.

Also the GX2 is not 2x 7900GTs slapped together, its 2x G71M (GeForce GO 7900GTX) mobile cores clocked at 500Mhz (50Mhz more than most GTs) and most of them will overclock to 600Mhz easily for a nice performance boost, for the more adventurous a small volt-mod will coupled with the space kit and some extra cooling let you take the GX2 to 7900GTX SLI performance.

easyrider was an early adopter and got stung, hence his rather low regard for these cards, but while understandable its not a fair or balanced view point.

( http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17589450 )

oh and put the 320Mb 8800 up against the GX2 with a modern game in ultra quality and the 8800 320Mb will weep from its lack of video memory while the GX2 is happily running smoothly.

I had that card a week.Its not a 7950 GX2 it was the very early model that I could not get to work with my DFI ultra.

Ugly thing,the pics in that thread speak for themselves. :eek:

I was not put off though and purchased the shrunken 7950 GX2.

It was the fastest card at one point and I had it a few months and sold it at a loss of 50 quid IIRC.The drivers where well established at this point.

I sold it for 350 around 9 days before 8800 GTX hit

I actually saw how pap they where when the big boy arrived in the shape of the 8800 GTX.

My framerate in oblivion doubled and the IQ just blew every previous GEN card away.

The GX2 is old dead tech.While it served its purpose when there was nothing faster around it was OK.

To suggest getting one now or not selling it at the right time is just plain wrong.

In fact my stop gap card 8800 GTS 320 MB beats the GX2 in every benchmark.And currently gets me the same 06 score as my stock 8800 GTX did.

The GX2 doesn't come close.So don't for minute suggest that it does.

Easyrider